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Do you have to celebrate New Year’s Eve with your partner? Editor Anna has a clear opinion!
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Weeks before the turn of the year we are brooding over our plans for New Year’s Eve. There is a fundamental question: Is it actually unromantic to celebrate separately as a couple? For BRIGITTE.de editor Anna, the matter is clear.
This year when I talked about how my husband and I celebrate New Year’s Eve, I kept getting asked the same question: “Are you okay with you?“Well, I admit that I am” guilty “: I will NOT be spending the New Year with my husband! How unromantic, I hear from all sides, and I seriously wonder if I don’t recognize the romance on New Year’s Eve.
Isn’t New Year’s Eve the party when most people get drunk together (at least that’s how it was before Corona …), shoot fireworks in the air at midnight (a complete waste of money, by the way!) And then continue drinking? Where is that romantic please? To create such an atmosphere, you need togetherness – and no binge drinking. For example, you would have to drive to a mountain hut, cuddle up to each other and look into the colorful valley (yes, admittedly, fireworks like that look nice …).
But what do you do when the man is more like company and you prefer to spend the New Year on the couch in a corona-safe way? Discuss for hours until a compromise has been found? No, why? What’s going to say: “We celebrate New Year’s Eve separately and see you in the New Year!” After all, my husband and I live together – and I don’t spend so much time with anyone else. When we are (spatially) separated on New Year’s Eve, no heart breaks, and certainly no relationship!
In the end, it is like this: if the turn of the year means a lot to you, you probably also want to have your partner with you. That is understandable and also completely logical.
But call me the New Year’s Eve Grinch: For me personally, December 31st is a day like any other – except that at midnight rockets fly into the sky, people fall around their necks (or hopefully just shake their fists) and a happy new year Year wish. Do I also, is also polite. And of course I also send my sweetheart a lovely WhatsApp message or give him a call. Then I’ll tell him I love him. And not only that “everything is okay with us”but all pretty great!